75 – Ibn ʿAbbās (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “Satan comes to one of you during his prayer and blows at his posterior, so it is made to seem to him that he has passed wind when in fact he has not. If that happens, he should not leave the prayer until he hears a sound or detects an odor.” Al-Bazzār recorded it (1); its original wording is found in the two Ṣaḥīḥs through the narration of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zayd (2), and Muslim transmits a similar report from Abū Hurayrah (3).

Al-Ḥākim also narrates, with an isnād traced back to Abū Saʿīd, that the Prophet said: “When Satan comes to one of you and says, ‘You have broken your ablution,’ let him reply, ‘You are lying.’” Ibn Ḥibbān likewise recorded it with the phrasing: “Let him say to himself…” (4).

Vocabulary
– yanfukhu (he blows): to expel air from the mouth.
– fī maqʿadatihi (at his posterior): maqʿadah—open mīm, silent qāf—refers to the lower part of a person’s body, i.e., the buttocks.
– yukhayyalu ilayhi (it is made to seem to him): from khāla–yakhīlu, meaning to imagine or suppose; the passive khuyyila lahu conveys that something is fancied. Here it denotes imagining that wind has exited from his posterior.